While eggs must always first give way to chickens, in the case of Twitter discussion volume and bitcoin price rising things aren’t exactly clear. Or, did the Twitterverse push ever-upward the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin?.

Also read: Initial Troll Offering Fires Back at Wall Street with Paid Ad of its Own “Twitter is clearly taking the lead as the home for discussions related to new monetary technologies,” Social Market Analytics‘ Joe Gits declares to Jared Podnos. Just this week, a Twitterer organized a giant troll campaign to buy mainstream advertising as a way to press bitcoin’s case to a wider professional financial world.